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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

Additionally, it’s a way of documenting decline that captures the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Furthermore, documenting decline is not only for ensuring quality care but also for meeting Medicare documentation requirements for hospice eligibility and recertification. I’ll be honest.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.